Vol 64 No 2 2024 

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United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology

The North American Division of the IAP

Report of the Vice Presidents to IAP, March 2024

John A. Hart, MD – North American VP

Esther Oliva, MD – North American VP

Membership

The North American Division of the IAP, also known as the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, currently has the following members which will also be reported at the annual business meeting in March 2024.

Annual Meeting 2024

The 2024 Annual Meeting will be live from Baltimore, Maryland. USCAP will record and provide access to all live meeting attendees the following sessions: Companion Society meetings, Evening Specialty Conferences, Maude Abbott Lecture, Timely Topics Lecture, Luminaries in Pathology, and Platforms. There are also three new session types that will be included, Histology Bootcamp, A Day in the Sign Out, and USCAP Journals. The On-Demand product can be purchased by those who cannot attend the meeting. The On-Demand product will be available the week after the meeting concludes.


Future Annual Meetings

2024: March 23 – 28, Baltimore Convention Center, MD

2025: March 22 – 27, Boston, MA

2026: March 21-26, San Antonio, TX

In addition, USCAP will continue to host its successful, Tutorial in Pathology of the GI Tract, Pancreas, and Liver, in Oslo Norway from August 11-15, 2024. This course is intended to provide comprehensive diagnostic information in a succinct and pragmatic fashion. 


Online learning continues to be an area of deep demand, and all interactive microscopy courses taught at USCAP’s learning center become online courses that can watched on demand and provide CME in the USA. USCAP has over 20,000 registered online learners.

2028 IAP Meeting

USCAP is working on a timeline for the development of a successful IAP meeting held in Toronto, Canada in 2028. The IAP and USCAP conducted a site visit in October 2023. 


USCAP Journals

In January 2023, USCAP changed publishers to Elsevier. The seamless transition is complete and all digitized content from 2000-present is available on the Elsevier websites. The Editors in Chief will host a new session at the 2024 Annual Meeting that highlights the most popular and interested papers published in, Modern Pathology and Laboratory Investigation. In addition,  Editor in Chief of Modern Pathology, George J. Netto, MD, will host a live ModPath Chat in Baltimore, MD.


USCAP Foundation

The Foundation continues to uphold the mission of the Academy, this year it offered 40 travel awards. 20 awards went to Pathologists in Training who were first authors of accepted abstracts, and 20 awards went to pathologists who reside in under-resourced countries as defined by the WHO-Hinari list. Each year the Foundation honors Dr. Florabel G. Mullick with a travel award for a pathologist from an under-resourced country. This year, Alex Mremi, FCPath-ECSA, MMed, PhD from Tanzania is the honoree.


Educational Activities

The Palm Springs Interactive Center is fully operational. Since March 2023, there have been 14 Interactive Microscopy courses help covering a wide range of topics. Three of these were in partnership with companion societies, Arthur Purdy Stout Society of Surgical Pathologists, Rodger C. Haggitt Gastrointestinal Pathology Society, and the International Society of Gynecological Pathologists. There will be three more course following the Annual Meeting, one being held with the American Association of Neuropathologists.

The 2024 Diagnostic Pathology Update meeting will be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 14-19, 2024. Chaired by Dr. Cristina Magi-Galluzzi and Dr. Steven D. Billings, the course will cover a breadth of pathology topics.

Collaboration with the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)


USCAP and ASCP sent representatives to the AORTIC meeting in Dakar, Senegal. From USCAP, Dr. Adeboye Osunkoya and Dr. Henry Tazelaar presented cases in a sponsored session. USCAP is working with ASCP to continue this collaboration.